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Bild, Gewalt und Subjekt in der Philosophie Walter Benjamins
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Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Buches steht die Konzeption des Realen. Anhand der Untersuchung von Benjamin und der Gegenwartsphilosophie (Agamben, Badiou, Lacan, Žižek etc.) sucht die Studie die Grundzüge der Politik des Realen darzustellen, die sich in der Wechselwirkung zwischen Bild, Gewalt und Subjekt offenbart. Ziel ist es, das Reale, den Exzess der symbolischen Ordnung zu retten, das sich als transzendentaler Materialismus zeigt. Subjektivität geht demnach aus der materiellen Bedingung hervor, ist aber dennoch mehr als pure Materialität. Sie stellt eine Negativität dar, die nicht auf die Materialität reduziert werden kann. Die scheinbare Objektivität ist im transzendentalen Materialismus von vornherein mit der Subjektivität verflochten. Somit wendet er sich sowohl vom naiven Realismus als auch von der Transzendentalphilosophie ab.
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Philosophy of History and Culture presents original works broadly concerned with philosophical treatments of the ideas of culture and history, culturally and historically embodied entities, and with interpretive strategies pertinent to their understanding. The series is aimed at readers interested in the philosophy of the arts, cross-cultural phenomena, and the interpretation of literary, historical, legal and religious texts.
An International Association for Aesthetics Book Series
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The International Association for Aesthetics’ book series, Transcultural Aesthetics, represents research findings and continuing discussions by members of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA) and by invited guest-authors and guest-editors as well. The multinational character of IAA, its geographical and ethnic diversity, provides, through these monographs and edited volumes, a forum for the critical interpretation of issues and debates within contemporary global aesthetics. Furthermore, this poly-facetted spectrum generates a repertoire differing in methodological perspectives, disciplines, and specializations. The association is thus addressing with its series some of the most urgent global challenges from the perspective of aesthetics: inter- and trans-disciplinary western and non-western aesthetics, geopolitical aesthetics (ecologically and politically motivated migration; re-evaluating colonialism and its cultural heritage), relations between philosophical and cultural oriented aesthetics, media- and techno-aesthetics, aesthetics of historical and contemporary arts. The Transcultural Aesthetics book series publishes individual and collective works in which historical, geographical, and contemporary problems of understanding and developing aesthetic theories are elaborated in a transdisciplinary way, thus exploring novel fields of aesthetic discourse. In going beyond this goal, it explicitly aims, in juxtaposing traditional as well as current aesthetic concepts from different cultures, at a continuous synergetic exchange of critical ideas.
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Revolutionary and writer: how do they fit together in one person’s work? Using literary texts from French, German, Russian and American pro-revolutionary writers, Sheila Delany examines the synergy of politics and rhetoric, art and social commitment. The writers she considers gave voice to the hopes of their time. Some led the events in person as well as through their writing; others worked to build a movement. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Mao, Sylvain Maréchal, Boris Lavrenov, Bertolt Brecht and others are here: consummate rhetoricians all, not necessarily on the same page politically but for the revolutions of their day.
Mit Bergson und Deleuze
Series:  dynamis
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Das hier präsentierte Modell einer Energetik der Film-Rezeption reperspektiviert die Deleuzesche Kinophilosophie anhand der Leib-, Zeit- und Geistphilosophie Henri Bergsons und legt damit ein System der strukturellen und ästhetischen Einwirkung des Films auf die Rezeption dar. Das Film-Bild ist als Material und in seiner Bewegung geeignet, nicht nur die Sinne zu ergreifen und eine im emphatischen Sinne energetische Erfahrung herzustellen. Die sich über die Zeit entfaltenden Figurationen prägen sich ästhetisch ein, werden in der Erinnerung integriert und damit in der Rezeption als sinnhafte Strukturen rekonstruiert und erlebt. Die Energie der Zeichen besteht im Anschluss an Charles Sanders Peirce in der sinnlichen sowie in der relationalen Aufladung mit Reizen, Beziehungen und Bedeutungen. Die Mechanismen einer solchen Energetik werden an der Rezeption des Films exploriert, lassen sich aber auf andere Medien und Situationen der Rezeption oder des Begreifens übertragen.
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Mahayana, Theravada, ancient, modern? Even at the most basic level, the diversity of Buddhism makes a comprehensive approach daunting. This book is a first step in solving the problem. In foregrounding the bodies of practitioners, a solid platform for analysing the philosophy of Buddhism begins to become apparent.
Building upon somaesthetics Buddhism is seen for its ameliorative effect, which spans the range of how the mind integrates with the body. This exploration of positive effect spans from dreams to medicine. Beyond the historical side of these questions, a contemporary analysis includes its intersection with art, philosophy, and ethnography.
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Philosophy, Literature, and Politics (PLP) offers studies of literature and literary history in the context of philosophical and political ideas. The series also spans the discursive territory in which philosophy is produced by literature and vice-versa.
PLP is a special series in VIBS, the Value Inquiry Book Series.
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This book explores a radically integrative phenomenology of nature through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By revisiting novel empirical findings in the sciences and advances in scientific methods and concepts, Merleau-Ponty leads us to rediscover a first nature right at the heart of the subject. Alessio Rotundo traces and documents the presence of a double meaning of nature affecting Merleau-Ponty’s analyses across foundational aspects of human experience: sense perception, organic development and behavior, cognition, language, and history. Physical, biological, and psychological processes in nature are not merely scientific data; they provide the evidence for another, more primordial sense of nature.